Another pleasant evening, where seven members ran a few trains and talked a lot. A second run out for the new club corners, and although there may be a few things to fettle, they seem to be working well.
Simon’s long US passenger train ran perfectly until we commented on this, whereupon it immediately broke into two sections….
Neil was running a range of European stock….
And testing a Stobart ’92’…
And Ian’s Stanier Pacific…
Back on Sunday afternoon for another running session.
All ready for our next project….
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Enjoyed all the appended YouTube videos!
As for the Santa Fe train breakaway, you might “justify” it this way: The railway used to run two separate trains on the Chicago – Los Angeles route: the Super Chief, which was the sleeping car train, and the El Capitan, the coach section. As business slacked off in the years pre-Amtrak, they combined the two sections into one train. That much is fact.
The combined train was usually probably half the length of the model and powered by more modern F-unit and F45 EMD Diesels, but you could say the train is just arriving at the terminus and has been split, as it can’t all possibly fit into one platform! You just need to find a shunter (maybe that BEEP unit?) – to propel the rear section into the depot. A prototype for everything ….
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